Ash-can.



W. SEEHASL ASH CAN.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 6. 1916.

Patented June 12, 1917.

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ASH-CAN.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 12, 1917.

. Application filed May 6, 1916. Serial No. 95,906.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM SEEHASE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Holland, in the county of Ottawa and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ash-Cans, of whibh the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in ash cans, or receptacles for receiving and removing ashes from furnaces, &c., and its objects are: first, to provide an ash can that may be so closely closed, when removing the can from the furnace to a place of deposit, that no dust can escape from it; second, to provide an ash can that may be so connected with the furnace, or with the furnace chimney that all floating dust or ashes, raised by reason of shoveling ashes into the can will be immediately taken up and the danger of having the loose ashes fill the atmosphere in a furnace room, practically averted; third, to provide an ash can that can be readily rolled away from the furnace room, up or down stairs, across a lawn, or otherwise handled without danger of scat tering ashes in the path of the moving can;

fourth, to provide a bail for handling said can that may be readily connected with, or removed from the can and that, when removed from the can, the can may be made to stand firmly and steadily on end.

I attain these objects by the mechanism and construction shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is an elevation of the can as it appears when the bail is removed and the can is standing on end; Fig. 2 is a plan of the can as it appears when the bail is attached and the can is in position, and condition to be rolled away from a furnace room; Fig. 3 shows the manner of connecting the can with a furnace,

or a furnace chimney for the purpose of removing the fioating dust or ashes when they are being shoveled from the furnace into the can; Fig. 4 is a plan of the end of the bail that is to be connected with the bottom of the can; Fig. 5 is a plan of the end of the bail that is to be connected with the upper end, or cover of the can. 7

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views in the drawing.

The can, 1, may be an ordinary ash can, but must be provided with outwardly extending pins, as 4:, 4, arranged to be entered into the slots or looking openings 5 in the cover 2, so the cover may be placed upon the can, and by being turned around a trifle the pin will be passed into the opening 5 in such a manner as to draw the cover snugly against the end of the can, thus rendering the joint between the cover and can so close as to preclude the possibility of ashes, no matter how fine, passing out between them when the can is being rolled along over any suitable surface, as the ground, a floor, or up or down steps. The cover 2 and the bottom 3 should be made to extend back well upon the body of the can 1, and should be considerably larger in their outer diameters than the can is so as to take the weight of the can and its load and avert the danger, as far as possible, of the body of the can coming in contact with any object that may be in the line of movement of the can, and thus bending or marring the can.

The lower end of the can is left perfectly flat and is provided with a hole in its center for the reception of the pintle 7, on the bail 8, for the purpose of averting the necessity of placing an outwardly projecting pin, as that shown at 6 on the cover, thus leaving the bottom of the can in condition to stand firmly and squarely upon a fioor, or other supporting surface. For the purpose of averting the danger of fine ashes scattering out of the opening into which the pintle 7 is placed, I prefer to place a thickening element of some kind inside of the can, as indicated by the dotted lines 13 in Fig. 2, into which the hole may be formed, or drilled.

The pintle, or pin 6, which is firmly connected with the cover 2 and projects outward therefrom, acts a double purpose: first, as a handle for manipulating the cover, and, second, as a bearing to receive the hook, or loop 9 at the end of the bail 8, for the purpose of connecting the bail with the can to move, or roll the can along over the ground, &c., by pulling upon the bail 8.

To remove the bail from the can it is simply necessary to slide the end 9 back upon the pintle 6, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 2, when this end of the bail may be carried olf of the end of the can and the 1 pintle 7 may be readily removed from its hearing by sliding the bail, relatively to the left, and may be replaced by simply I reversing the action.

In Fig. 3 I have shown the manner of connecting the can with a furnace or chimney to prevent dust from floating from the can when being shoveled'into a. In this What I claim as new, and desire to secure.

by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. In a dustless ash can, a cylindrical body, a bottom having a peripheralflange formed thereon to pass over theendof the body, said bottom having a small round opening in the radial center thereof, a cover s over any appropriate surface; 7 I

having a flange turned thereon to pass down overfthe top of the can body, said flange having looking notches formed in opposite sides of the cover, pins projecting from the'bod'y in position to be passed into said notches to lock the cover firmly onto the body, a pin projecting outward from the radial center of the cover, and a bail arranged so that one end will pass into the hole in the bottom, and the other end may be looped over the pin on the cover.

' 2. In a dustless ash can, a cylindrical body, a bottom having the edges turned at right angles to form a flange around the end of the body, a hub projecting upward from the radial center of the bottom, the bottom and said hub having a central hole therein, a cover having the edges turned, at right angles to form a flange to extend downward ,overthe end of the can body and having notches. therein, pins. projecting outward formed on-the other end of the bail, and a pin projecting from the radialcenter of the cover to enter said loop to so secure the bail to thecan that 'the can maybe rolled thereby 3. In combinationwith an ashcan, acover having'a flange passed downwardover the body. ofthe can forming a hoop thereon, means for lockingthe cover firmly upon the can, a pin projecting from the center of the cover, a bottom having a flange formed to extend upward over the body ofthecan, the

center of the bottom thickened and having a hole extending therein, a bail, a pintle formed at one end of the bail to enter the hole in thecenter of the bottom, a loop formedv atthe other end of theibail to engage the pinon the cover sothe can may bereadilyrolled oversuitable surfaoes thereby. I

Signed at Holland, Michigan, April 26, 1916'.

IWILLIAM sEEnAsn;

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